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Re: Sora 2

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Post by dweekly » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 5:26 PM UTC

So a social network that's 100% your friends doing silly AI things?

I feel like this is the ultimate extension of "it feels like my feed is just the artificial version of what's happening my friends and doesn't really tell me anything about how they're actually faring."

Re: Sora 2

#32

Post by taytus » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 5:26 PM UTC

Honest question: What problem does this solve?

Re: Sora 2

#33

Post by mempko » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 5:26 PM UTC

It's obvious there is no way OpenAI can keep videos generated by this within their ecosystem. Everything will be fake, nothing real. We are going to have to change the way we interact with video. While it's obviously possible to fake videos today, it takes work by the creator and takes skill. Now it will take no skill so the obvious consequence of this is we can't believe anything we see.

The worst part is we are already seeing bad actors saying 'I didn't say that' or 'I didn't do that, it was a deep fake'. Now you will be able to say anything in real life and use AI for plausible deniability.

Re: Sora 2

#34

Post by whimsicalism » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 5:27 PM UTC

Find this sort of innovation far less interesting or exciting than the text & speech work, but it seems to be a primary driver of adoption for the median person in a way that text capability simply is not.

Re: Sora 2

#35

Post by greyk47 » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 5:27 PM UTC

chis wrote: post #28

pton_xd wrote: post #18

Someone remind me the benefits of mass produced fake videos again?

I imagine it's incredibly useful for prototyping movies, tv, commercials before going to the final version. CGI will probably get way cheaper too with some hybrid approach. Obviously this will get used for a lot of evil or bad as well

can you imagine a billion dollar company promoting their new pre-vis app?

Re: Sora 2

#36

Post by IncreasePosts » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 5:27 PM UTC

pton_xd wrote: post #18

Someone remind me the benefits of mass produced fake videos again?

I can have an idea and see a video of something like my idea pretty quickly.

What are the benefits of what you do? Does anyone know?

Re: Sora 2

#37

Post by jamiecurle » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 5:27 PM UTC

pton_xd wrote: post #18

Someone remind me the benefits of mass produced fake videos again?

Fun.

Re: Sora 2

#38

Post by bigyabai » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 5:27 PM UTC

aizk wrote: post #16

S0und wrote: post #12

I find it comical that OpenAI with all the power of CharGPT even them are unable to release an app for both iOS and Android at the same time. Wow, good marketing for Codex.

That is more of a statement of the complete dominance of iPhones among gen z.

Or Sama's documented reverence for Apple products. We are talking about the guy who sold Tim Cook his AI for $0.00, he's not exactly got the horse drawing the cart here.

Re: Sora 2

#39

Post by jablongo » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 5:28 PM UTC

Sam Altman has made (for me) encouraging statements in the past about short-form video like TikTok being the best current example of misaligned AI. While this release references policies to combat "Doomscrolling and RL-sloptimization", it's curious that OpenAI would devote resources to building a social app based on AI generated short form video, which seems to be a core problem in our world. IMO you can't tweak the TikTok/YouTube shorts format and make it a societal good all of a sudden, especially with exclusively AI content. This is a disturbing development for Altman's leadership, and sort of explains what happened in 2023 when they tried to remove him... -> says one thing, does the opposite.

Re: Sora 2

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Post by modeless » Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 5:28 PM UTC

I can see it being interesting to create wacky fake videos of your friends for a week or two, but why would people still be using this next year?

I watch videos for two reasons. To see real things, or to consume interesting stories. These videos are not real, and the storytelling is still very limited.